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vimcygwinmintty

set window title for mintty

With vim running on cygwin, I would like to automatically set the window title on the active buffer name.

I wrote this: 

function! SetMinttyTitle()
    silent !clear
    execute "!" . "echo -ne '\\e]0;". @% . "\\a' 2>&1 > /dev/null"
endfunction

au BufNewFile,BufEnter,BufRead * call SetMinttyTitle()

Unfortunately It doesn't work as expected. I didn't find the way to get rid of this message

"Press ENTER or type command to continue"

How can I run my command on the background?

Solution

  • The usual answer is to use system() instead; it doesn't echo the output, but instead returns it. But that won't work in your case, as you need the output to be printed to your terminal. Temporarily resetting 'shellredir' may work:

    set shellredir=
call system("clear; echo -ne '\\e]0;". @% . "\\a' 2>&1 > /dev/null")
set shellredir=>

    But Vim actually has that functionality built-in, see :help 'titlestring'